- Paperback: 928 pages
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 2nd Edition edition (9 May 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0471295183
- ISBN-13: 978-0471295181
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 18.8 x 5.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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CORBA is arguably our most mature standard for sharing objects, and version 3.0 offers an even richer array of features for powering the next generation of distributed systems. CORBA 3 Fundamentals and Programming provides a comprehensive introduction to understanding and programming with CORBA. Mixing a high-level technology guide with an excellent hands-on tutorial for a sample project on today's most popular Object Request Brokers (ORBs), this title delivers a thorough and practical introduction to the latest in CORBA, suitable for both beginner and expert alike.
This text first offers a nicely comprehensive tour of CORBA, from the basics of Interface Definition Language (IDL), ORBs, Portable Object Adapters (POAs), built-in CORBA services and an overview of the new CORBA domain-specific business objects (for such areas as finance and healthcare).
Throughout the early sections of the book, the authors takes care to highlight new features of CORBA 3.0 for more experienced readers. But even if CORBA is brand new to you, this title will give you what you need to get started whether you use C++, Java (or even COBOL) to write business objects.
Because CORBA is an open standard (defined with input from hundreds of vendors), it has always been something of a moving target. Particular ORB products may not implement every feature in the same way. The second half of this text looks at CORBA in the real world. First, the author surveys a half dozen current CORBA products, and then provides an excellent case study (for a point of sale system for a grocery shop) which is implemented in separate versions for C++, Java and COBOL. Better yet, the author gives you specific development and deployment hints for specific ORBs so you can run the sample code on your particular vendor's implementation of CORBA.
In all, CORBA 3 Fundamentals and Programming is really two books in one--an excellent guide to basic and advanced CORBA, with special attention paid to new features in version 3.0--and a practical tutorial for building a small CORBA based system. It's a great choice for any software developer who wants to start using CORBA for real-world projects. --Richard Dragan, Amazon.com EBD
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"For CORBA 3, the choice has to go to Siegel" (UNIX NT, January 2001)
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is an excellent introduction to CORBA for both first time users and those with many years software engineering experince. The essential features of CORBA are described and code examples work first time without problems. A CD is also included with evaluation versions of major Object Request Brokers (ORBs)
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Superficial and embarrassing
22 Jun 2000
Format:Paperback
This book has CORBA 3 in the title but CORBA 3 doesn't even exist yet. Despite this claim to conformance to a non-existing standard, the code examples use the BOA, which was deprecated ages ago. The POA is covered in only about three pages, which nowhere near enough. Other topics are covered to a similar level of non-detail. This book is definitely no use if you are programmer, and even for non-programmers, the coverage is probably too superficial to be of much use.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Embarrassment for the OMG
23 July 2000
Format:Paperback
The book is a major disappointment. How can the title include "CORBA 3", althought the specification isn't even available (and won't be for quite some time)? Things that have long been deprecated (like the BOA) are still being used for the code samples. Important topics such as the POA are described in a few pages only. It seems that the author tries to explain everything there is to CORBA, but only manages to scratch the surface of each topic. It is a roller coaster of topics which is to be expected by having a dozen co-authors. The most embarrassing fact is that the author is working for the OMG. Spend your money on the excellent book by Henning & Vinoski. Whatever programming language you use, Siegel's book is worthless.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
If you have nothing to say - write a stupid book
5 Jun 2001
Format:Paperback
I was really raging that I bought this book. Full of buzzwords, whithout any deeper knowledge. There are a lot of very good CORBA books, but this is no one. This one is only ga ga.
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